A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas Report 3: Past and Probable Future Population (open access)

A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas Report 3: Past and Probable Future Population

Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. This report includes tables and charts showing Dallas' population history and expected growth up until approximately 1970; the report looks at factors that could effect the distribution of population, where the future growth may occur, etc.
Date: October 1943
Creator: Harland Bartholomew and Associates
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 8: Land Use (open access)

A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 8: Land Use

Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. This report includes tables and charts showing current and future land use as well as current and future zoning districts. According to an "Errata" insert, tables 1, 2, and 3, were made using the "wrong acreage for the Dallas parks...use the revised tables in studying this report."
Date: October 1944
Creator: Harland Bartholomew and Associates
System: The Portal to Texas History
Your Dallas of Tomorrow: A Master Plan for a Greater Dallas (open access)

Your Dallas of Tomorrow: A Master Plan for a Greater Dallas

Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. It is presented in two parts: the character of the city (background information on the history, geography, economy, employment, zoning, etc.) and the scope of the city plan, which has specific details for a plan to improve land use, water supplies, transportation, recreational facilities, and other aspects of city administration.
Date: September 1943
Creator: Harland Bartholomew and Associates
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Water and Sewage Development Plan Prepared by Dallas City Water Works] (open access)

[Water and Sewage Development Plan Prepared by Dallas City Water Works]

Rough draft of a plan created by Dallas City Waterworks attempting to improve the "water and sanitary sewer utilities serving the Dallas Metropolitan Area." There are charts and graphs throughout the document, including five tables in the back.
Date: February 1945
Creator: Dallas City Waterworks
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Outline of the Dallas Master Plan (open access)

An Outline of the Dallas Master Plan

Outline of the Dallas Master Plan compiled by the Dallas City Plan Commission discussing the fourteen previous reports made by Harland Bartholomew. The report also contains maps showing the city's streets, water distribution, parks, etc. Included in the back is a handwritten list made by Mayor J. Woodall Rodgers listing members of the various boards and committees involved in the planning.
Date: 1946
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). City Plan Commission.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 14: A Preliminary Report Upon a Capital Expenditure Program (open access)

The Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 14: A Preliminary Report Upon a Capital Expenditure Program

Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. This report includes details concerning a capital expenditure program, such as the allocation of funds, selection of projects and a "[p]roposed 25 Year Program of General Fund Public Improvements. The second part of the report details an improvement program for the water and sanitary sewer systems. The appendix at the end of the report includes 17 tables providing empirical data about the proposed plans.
Date: February 1945
Creator: Harland Bartholomew and Associates
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas: Water and Sanitary Sewer Utilities (open access)

A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas: Water and Sanitary Sewer Utilities

Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. This report includes graphs, charts, and maps concerning the development of an improved water and sanitary sewer system; at the back of the report there are maps showing predicted urban development and the Dallas water distribution system.
Date: February 1945
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
System: The Portal to Texas History
Northside History Project Report (open access)

Northside History Project Report

Final report documenting the archival research about the "Northside" area of Corpus Christi along with information and images gathered from community members through oral histories and open houses. This report serves as a component of supplemental research during planning for the rebuilding of the harbor bridge at U.S. 181.
Date: 2017
Creator: Smith, C. Lynn
System: The Portal to Texas History
D. N. Leathers I History Project Report (open access)

D. N. Leathers I History Project Report

Report discussing the history of a public housing project located in the "Northside" area of Corpus Christi, "to document the 28 buildings of the D. N. Leathers I public housing campus as well as how those buildings fit into the historic context of public housing nationally and locally. The culture of D. N. Leathers I in the 1940s through the 1960s is also included through the perceptions of the persons who contributed their oral history to the project" (p. 2).
Date: June 2017
Creator: Smith, C. Lynn
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Beach Study for the City of Corpus Christi (open access)

North Beach Study for the City of Corpus Christi

Report discussing floods and sediments near Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, based on data gathered between 1927 and summer 1956. It includes specific measurements and analyses, broken into sections under three phase headings: (1) Floods of North Beach: Record, Causes, Types and Probability, (2) Sedimentation and Maintenance, and (3) Area Flood Protection by Strengthening Barrier Islands.
Date: August 10, 1956
Creator: Price, W. Armstrong
System: The Portal to Texas History